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05 Dec 09

Matthew Yglesias » The Persistence of Poverty

  • Now picture you are in a room with 10 people screaming.
  • Would you pay a $1 to get the first person to stop screaming, and a penny for the 10th person to stop screaming?
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04 Dec 09

Jim Hoggan | The oily echo machine behind "climategate"

  • It's no coincidence that the groups pushing this story the hardest have a long history of taking money from oil and coal companies to attack the conclusions made by climate scientists.


  • Center for a Constructive Tomorrow: owns and operate ClimateDepot.com, which has been a main clearinghouse for the right-wing climategate echo chamber. ClimateDepot.com is managed by Marc Morano, former aide to Republican Senator James Inhofe. CFACT has received grants from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and well-known right-wing foundations like the Carthage Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation.


    American Enterprise Institute: Offered to pay "experts" $10,000 to write papers that countered the IPCC reports. AEI has received close to half a million from oil-giant ExxonMobil, former Exxon Chairman Lee Raymond sits on AEI's board of directors.


    Media Research Center: run by Brett Bozell, this group also operates the popular right-wing blog, Newsbusters.org. The Media Research Center has received over $257,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.


    Cato Institute: Is the main front group for the most prolific climate denier, Patrick Michaels. Cato is the second largest recipient of funding the foundations run by Koch Industries Inc. (the largest private energy company in the United States).

    Heartland Institute: Organizes a "denier conference" every year for the past three years. Used to receive funding from ExxonMobil, still recieve grants from tobacco companies and are also a major recipient of grants from the foundations run by Koch Industries Inc. (the largest private energy company in the United States).

    Heritage Foundation: Heritage is massive and operates on about $50 million a year. They have received significant funding from ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and other fossil fuel companies.


    National Center for Policy Analysis: the NCPA is a small, but very vocal Dallas, Texas-based freemarket think tank and has received over $540,900 from oil giant ExxonMobil since 1998.


    Competitive Enterprise Institute: The CEI is well-known for its public efforts to aggressively counter the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change, especially after their infamous set of television ads with the tag line "C02, We Call it Life." Since 1998, the CEI has received over $2 million in funding from oil-giant ExxonMobil.

30 Nov 09

The Prosperity Gospel And The Subprime Collapse, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Rosin-prosperity-gospel-wide

  • As so often, Tocqueville got there first:

    "Not only do the American practice their religion out of self-interest,
    but they often even place in this world the interest which they have in
    practicing it. Priests in the Middle Ages spoke of nothing but the
    other life; they hardly took any trouble to prove that a sincere
    Christian might be happy here below. But preachers in America are continually coming down to earth.
    Indeed they find it difficult to take their eyes off it. The better to
    touch their hearers, they are forever pointing out how religious
    beliefs favor freedom and public order, and it is often difficult to be
    sure when listening to them whether the main object of religion is to
    procure eternal felicity in the next world or prosperity in this." 
    Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. II, Part 2, ch. 9
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29 Oct 09

Matthew Yglesias » Inequality Begets Inequality

  • 42% of American men with fathers in the bottom income quintile remain there as compared to: Denmark, 25%; Sweden, 26%; Finland, 28%; Norway, 28%; and the United Kingdom, 30%.
  • The high level of income inequality in the United States leads to highly unequal opportunities for American children, whereas the low levels of income inequality in Nordic countries lead to more equal outcomes.
26 Oct 09

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • "Please help us spread the message about Iran, its reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and what that means for Israel with your most generous contribution of $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or even the maximum $5,000, today,"
20 Oct 09

U.S. Chamber Disclosure Report No Hoax : NPR

  • But in an announcement that wasn't fake, a disclosure report indicates the Chamber spent $35 million in the past three months alone to influence Congress and the administration.
19 Oct 09

Barack Obama ready to pay Afghan fighters to ditch the Taliban - Times Online

  • One official said the key emphasis in the White House meetings had been to
    identify options that would prepare the way for American troops to leave.
    Apart from training more Afghan troops, the focus has shifted to accepting a
    political role for the Taliban, while also trying to weaken them by winning
    some over.
  • Afghans are known for changing sides back and forth during their long years of
    war — there is an old saying that “you can rent an Afghan but never buy one”
    — and battles have often been decided by defections rather than combat.
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29 Sep 09

Afghan Insurgents' Diverse Funding Sources Pose Challenges - washingtonpost.com

  • Obama administration officials say the single largest source of cash for the Taliban, once thought to rely mostly on Afghanistan's booming opium trade to finance its operations, is not drugs but foreign donations.
  • Some American and Afghan officials said the U.S. government, which had been a leading nominator of names for the U.N. blacklist, paid less attention to Taliban donors after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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28 Sep 09

Auditing the Fed | Capital Gains and Games

  • The Fed is already thoroughly audited in every area except two: monetary policy and dealings with foreign central banks.
  • Whatever one thinks of the Fed's policies in recent years--and there certainly are grounds for criticism--there is no reason whatsoever to believe that undermining its independence and putting the Congress in control of monetary policy--Ron Paul's goal--would improve matters at all
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